rack mount KVM over IP

[Matt Shields]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Stephen Goulet <goulet-zY4eFNvK5D9If6P1QZMOBw at public.gmane.org>wrote:

>
>    I had good luck with Raritan except when I put one into a remote
> site.  The Raritan software would not create the JAVA subprocesses, i.e.
> network information not carried to new sub process correctly, preventing
> it from getting back thru our fire wall.  Rariatan was working on this
> but I do not know if they ever resolved it.   Without the firewall issue
> it worked great.
>
>
>
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > On 06/21/2010 10:56 AM, Chandler, Scott wrote:
> >
> >> I've been using Avocent model DSR 2020 for about four years now, plus a
> Dell branded Avocent version before that. They have 16 RJ45 ports which
> connect over Cat5 to a dongle (they call it a "pod") on each server.
> >>
> > On 06/21/2010 11:07 AM, Matt Shields wrote:
> >
> >> I use the Raritan KVM-over-IP and have been extremely happy with
> >> them.  I use the KX-232 and KX-464 (2 user, 32 port & 4 user, 64 port)
> >> ones with the Command Center to link them all together.  I have quite
> >> a few of them thoughout multiple datacenters and the Command Center
> >> provides one UI to get to any server in the network.
> >>
> >
> > Thanks guys. Certainly both Avocent and Raritan will be on my list of
> > recommends. I think that Matt mentioned the Raritan back in 2008. I've
> > also got some experience with the Avocent brand stuff. I asked our
> > distributor for a list of what he carries. We can only deal with 1
> > company for PO purposes.
> >
> > One issue I had with the Rose KVM is that it would frequently go
> > offline. Specifically, I could access it from the local screen, but not
> > remote, so I would have to power cycle it, and on a few occasions it
> > would not even be accessible locally. I would have recommended the Aten
> > KH1516i unit but JABR had not installed it at that time, and out IT
> > people recommended Rose.
> >
> >
>
>
As happy as I've been with Raritan, I have to say that sometimes their GUI
is a bit touchy depending on your local version of Java.  I've had issues
from computer to computer where sometimes I can't connect because of Java
issues.  But this isn't the first app that has had issues with Java.

-matt